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Your Life
- beachstartup 11y agoif you feel pretty much the same every day, you're either a psychopath, or you're not doing anything worth caring about.
- lighttower 11y agoDude that's really callous. There are many people that are taking drugs that make them feel the same everyday
- Retra 11y agoWell, the latter is simply not true, and if it is the former I hardly see how it would pose a problem. Not that you're in a position to make such a diagnosis.
- coldtea 11y ago>Well, the latter is simply not true Assuming it is, though, how would one know whether they are or not? >I hardly see how it would pose a problem Being unable to feel a variety of emotions and feeling the same each day can indeed be problem -- an indication of incomplete emotional development / functioning -- which can affect many parts of life, most importantly decision making, relationships, etc. Of course the web can't make the diagnosis, but an expert can, given an examination. Of course you might also be saying it lightly, e.g. feel "more or less" the same everyday, as opposed to always exactly the same, and given that nothing especially nice or bad has happened to you and those you know all this time.
- Retra 11y ago> Assuming it is, though, how would one know whether they are or not? You don't have to know it, you just have to believe enough to pursue something. You can sit around saying "nothing I do matters," but if the end result of that is doing nothing, then surely that kind of thinking would matter even less than any alternative. >Of course you might also be saying it lightly, e.g. feel "more or less" the same everyday, as opposed to always exactly the same, and given that nothing especially nice or bad has happened to you and those you know all this time. I feel a good number of emotions, they just don't color my whole day. I don't have bad days, basically. There are doubts, joys, pains, and irritations, but that's pretty much true of every day.
- dang 11y agoI'm not sure whether this is more ridiculous overstatement or personal attack, but it contains enough of the latter not to be ok here. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468051 and marked it off-topic.
- some1else 11y agoHTML infographic inspired by Tim Urban's Life Calendar[1]. Made this after seeing his TED talk[2]. [1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
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- Walkman 11y agoWould be cool if we could write our own life events.
- some1else 11y agoNoted.
- nice_byte 11y agoFor somehing equally depressing, check out this comic by Abstruse Goose: http://abstrusegoose.com/51 http://abstrusegoose.com/51
- misingnoglic 11y agoI think the website needs a better job explaining what it actually is. What's the point? I just drew a smiley face by clicking random squares.
- pcurve 11y agoWe always are surprised how quickly a week goes by. I think the point of the web site is to let people know that there aren't that many weeks in one's life time. nothing more... nothing less...
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- alderz 11y agoYou are describing life, what's it? what's the point? It's a good thing you drew a smiley face :)
- xiaoma 11y ago> "I just drew a smiley face" Well done. This is an excellent response to the page and to life.
- some1else 11y agoIt's just an info-graphic. A reminder at how important it is to have weekly goals. The squares toggle, so I could mark the current week, or a short period. I think it's pretty awesome you drew a smiley face :-)
- capote 11y agoI think these things are kind of grim. Living life without considering its length as a motivation to do things is perfectly fine.
- sdegutis 11y agoEver since the 60s, epiphanies and ideas like this are fads, fashion statements. How did George Romero say it? Something like "it was the 60s, everyone had something to say." The 60s never ended, people keep thinking they have something to say, and since nobody's listening to them on Twitter and Facebook anymore, they're just getting more creative.
- diegorbaquero 11y agoThe idea is nice (depressing, but nice). But what's the use, you can only turn tiles to red. Can't even drag the mouse to select many, state is also not saved :(. My 2c
- neals 11y agoYup. Almost there!
- ak39 11y agoHey bud, I'm not too far. Can I sit next to you? We can throw crumbs & seeds for the birds together.
- atemerev 11y agoWay too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.
- pcurve 11y agoI get the feeling the creator wasn't trying to plot quality of life as data point here...
- a3n 11y agoMaybe. Or quality of life might mean something different to people as they age.
- duaneb 11y agoMedical expenses only accelerate if you attempt to fend off death. There is no need for this with assisted suicide laws.
- atemerev 11y agoI am living in the country with such laws in place (Switzerland); but most old people I talked to really want to live. Nobody wants to die, unless they are in great pain.
- duaneb 11y ago> quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks. That sounds pretty painful.
- ams6110 11y agoThere is no need for this even without assisted suicide laws.
- duaneb 11y agoChoosing between months of dying painfully and years of dying perhaps marginally less painfully is not a choice anyone should have to make.
- dataker 11y agoI feel bad for myself. I first thought this was a Google Calendar view for some reason.
- Raed667 11y agoAssuming you're going to live to 90
- a3n 11y agoCut it off where you like.
- daw___ 11y agoWould it be great if you could select ranges of blocks and assign a color to each range according to how you felt those days, i.e. green: good, yellow: not that good, red: not good. I did something like this in past, with colors, and contrarily to the expectations it actually cheered me up to see all those green blocks making up a huge chunk of life. Also, it reminded me of http://moriclock.com http://moriclock.com
- Retra 11y agoMaybe I'm strange, but that seems totally useless to me, because I feel pretty much the same every day.
- Jonovono 11y agohehe just came here to post my project - moriclock! Cool to know people still remember it. I like your idea of coloring of the blocks. I had big plans of turning it into some sort of journaling application.
- vitd 11y agoI'm not sure what it's attempting to do, but the data it provided me was completely wrong. It was claiming there were only 6 days left in the year, for example. (It's April 10th, so there are many more than 6 days left.) It said 20 minutes left in the hour, but it's 8:22, so there's more like 38 minutes left. WTF?
- Jonovono 11y agoWeird. Looks correct to me. Is it possible your system time is weird? It might be based off of that.
- omegaham 11y agoReminds me of Pixar's Inside Out, where memories are portrayed as little colored spheres, with different colors indicating joy, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger. These spheres end up getting stored in enormous warehouses, with enormous splashes of various colors.
- sampl 11y agoHere's a similar project where the dots fade as you get older to indicate chance of death (the opacity is based on actual US mortality data from actuarial tables). http://www.sampl.us/life-of-dots/ http://www.sampl.us/life-of-dots/
- ams6110 11y agoSomeone once sold a desk clock that counted down until the end of your life. Edit--now available as a watch: http://mytikker.com/collections/tikker http://mytikker.com/collections/tikker
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- drworm 11y agoThere is a Chrome extension with a similar concept that I enjoy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortality-new-tab/eeedcpdcehnikgkhbobmkjcipjhlbmpn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortality-new-tab/...
- ghostly_s 11y agoI made a script for shell profiles which does something similar last year: https://github.com/brightghost/memento-mori https://github.com/brightghost/memento-mori
- ramblerman 11y agoLive as if you will die tomorrow and learn as if you will live forever - Ghandi
- stared 11y agoA good friend of mine has a 365x100 rectangle on his (high res) display. As a reminder that it is small, yet he has less days in his life than pixels in this rectangle. And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. A modern, sobering memento mori, I would say.
- acqq 11y ago> 365x100 rectangle I like that! > And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. Does anybody really values days of life based only on the "projects"?
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- hobo_mark 11y agoI keep a journal since three years and I mostly write about current "projects" (be them work or my own things) and future ideas. To answer, yes, a day in which I haven't done anything useful is not really worth as much as a day in which I have, and it will be forgotten (unless I happen to be traveling (rare) or have met someone interesting (rarer)).
- nkozyra 11y agoIt depends on how you define "project." Most people have life goals that filter into professional, personal, family, etc. Some goals might not sound like projects "go on more vacations with the kids," but require a sequence of things to be done in order for them to be feasible. In "the end," the ones that are most valuable will probably not be the professional things, particularly in the technical space. Most because they'll feel especially inconsequential 10 years out. The professional projects I spent weeks and months on a decade ago are problems largely solved and turnkey in 2016. That said, they're fulfilling, and that's why we enjoy doing them and challenging ourselves. So unless you're doing some really monumentally important-for-humanity professional projects, their value is probably ephemeral. They should play into a larger set of life goals.
- coldtea 11y ago
- blairanderson 11y agofork here, make it more alive https://github.com/some1else/life https://github.com/some1else/life
- ak39 11y agoI immediately began marking some memories of my early teen, a period when I remembered being genuinely happy (memories of growing up in Central Africa with my heroic elder brothers). But then I began marking several squares in my late teens for doing things I regretted. I marked a few squares in my mid twenties for doing things I regretted. I marked more in my early thirties for things I regretted. All dumb shit, nothing serious. I was about to mark a few more blocks towards the end of my thirties too for things I regretted ... I had by then realised that I was one colossal self-bashing negative joy-sapping son of a bitch. How do I stop this self-criticism, dear lord? Nice tool! Maybe it can be modified to aid psychotherapy.
- andrewfromx 11y agothis is amazing. It so clearly shows the human aging process and why 27 is the hardest year/color. But if you survive it, you break on through to the next color. I think around 87 there is another tough year.
- benjaminfox 11y agoIf you want a customizable life calendar like this as your homepage, I made one that's usable as a bookmark or Chrome extension: http://count.life http://count.life
- mentos 11y agoCrazy to think how many people will get up tomorrow morning and hate the outlook of their day. To me that is insane and something that future generations will look back on in awe.
- matt_wulfeck 11y agoMaybe they'll also wonder why our generation so easily judges others instead of looking inward first?
- namenotrequired 11y agoIs there any indication this will suddenly stop being true in a few generations?
- OJFord 11y agoOr indeed that it hasn't always been true. "Man will always have shit days." -- Greek proverb
- partisan 11y agoThey will look back and be jealous.
- joeyspn 11y agoAhh yeah, this is from Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks post [0], and way before Tim discovered and wrote his awesome posts about the AI Revolution [1] and cryonics.... I guess he knows now that 90 might actually be quite short sighted. So, I'm forking and adding the estimated date where we trascend from humans to cloud-beings (around 2045, Kurzweil's™ prediction) [2]... [0] http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html [1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu... [2] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299...
- ps4fanboy 11y agoI have printed out one of these before and it made me feel really crappy.
- fizixer 11y agoEvery time an existential post is made here, I have to remind people: As technologists you guys should have a little more confidence/faith/whatever in the progress we're making every passing day, than is evident from the tone of most of the comments here. Smart-phones, social media, startups, IPOs, these are huge blind spots of technology. It makes you think that's all there is to it. Technology is much more than that. In that regard I always remember the DARPA's 21st century forecast of what's the most relevant human progress: - Info"Tech" - Bio"Tech" - Nano"Tech" We're making huge advances in all three (another blind spot is linear thinking when technology actually progresses exponentially). With regards to biotech: - CRISPR has made huge advances - stem cells are making rapid progress - supercomputers and advanced algorithms (including machine learning) are getting to the point where we're putting human biology on solid "informatic" footing every passing year. (IMPORTANT: And this is without assuming onset of human-level AI, which in itself is forecasted to happen by 2030. If that happens, then the progress would be unbelievably faster!). - but most importantly, people like Aubrey de Grey are "waking up" medical researchers and gerontologists from a narrow view of "cure cancer", "cure HIV" and asking them to treat "aging" as a problem and treat it as an object of manipulation. If people like you (technologists) can get out of the pessimism of pro-aging trance, a lot can be accomplished in the next 20 to 40 years.
- abootstrapper 11y agoIf you consider aging and death in old age as a negative, perhaps you should reconsider your philosophy, instead of chasing immortality.
- greggman 11y agoThere was this piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg It shows 100 years of days with someone's life highlighted. Kind of sobering. I want to be believe like fizixer but it's hard to notice any medical changes. I'm 50, what's changed since I was born? I'm no a doctor so I have no idea. Sure I know we've got CRISPR and we've mapped the genome but where are the actual changes? Friends have gotten cancer, AFAICT treatment hasn't changed much. I still get colds. My hair is still falling out and turning gray. Face getting wrinkles. Life doesn't look like the Jetsons
- kaybe 11y agoWell, over here we're shooting at people's heads with a particle accelerator beam to kill brain tumors. Works pretty well if the conditions are met. Next up: Moving targets you can't bolt to the table because the person will die from not breathing. (So the beam has to be moved.) Biology is hard though.
- goblin89 11y ago> There was this piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo > http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg > It shows 100 years of days with someone's life highlighted. I wonder what do the darker-colored days stand for. Thanks for sharing this shot.
- simplexion 11y agoWhy do people always feel like they are wasting time? How exactly do you waste your time? I ask people this every time I am told, by them, I am wasting my time playing games on my computer. I love playing games... why is doing something you love wasting time?
- bronz 11y agoThis is really profound. I made a rough estimate of when I will die and ticked the box that corresponds to it. Being able to see each individual week that I have left really gave me pause. Wow. And this graph is generous. Your perception of how long a week is decreases with time. So if this were a graph of how much perceived time you have left it would be even smaller...
- jondubois 11y agoOn my death bed, my only regret will be that I didn't work smarter, harder and longer. That's why I work so hard now; to minimize the amount of regret.
- bo1024 11y agoThis is a somewhat alarming site to view without javascript.
- PeCaN 11y agoAw, I thought this was some kind of colorful Conway's game of life and spent a while looking for a play button after drawing a bunch of gliders and such.
- peace011 11y ago.simple-life { background: linear-gradient(360deg, #975162, #956282, #85769E, #688CAF, #45A1B2, #37B2A6, #56C08F, #87CA74, #BDCF5E, #F6CE59); }
- audiodude 11y agoI don't believe in gods, but if I did, I'd pray that I don't live to 90. Yikes.
- glxybstr 11y agothis is interesting. colors are an important addition. i made a demo of the same concept a few months ago. i wrote up a few notes. http://galaxybuster.net/notes/thoughts-on-timeleft http://galaxybuster.net/notes/thoughts-on-timeleft
- vaulstein 11y agoDoes everyone die at 91?
- unixhero 11y agoI hate stuff like this. "Tick tock" et cetera. I get terribly depressed thinking too much about it.
- d33 11y ago> <div class='week'></div><div class='week'></div><div class='week'></div><div c Why was THAT not implemented in JavaScript?
- milkey_mouse 10y agoLife is effort and I'll stop when I die!
- diimdeep 10y agoBuster Benson made something similar but much more interactive http://busterbenson.com http://busterbenson.com